This type of vitamin may help kill blood cancer cells!

According to the information given by the researchers, a study has recently disclosed that the Vitamin C might help in killing blood cancer stem cells that will be beneficial for our body as it will reduce the risk of cancer. As per the study, certain genetic changes are known to reduce the ability of an enzyme called TET2 to encourage stem cells to become mature blood cells, which eventually die, in many patients with certain kinds of leukemia. The new&hellip;

According to the information given by the researchers, a study has recently disclosed that the Vitamin C might help in killing blood cancer stem cells that will be beneficial for our body as it will reduce the risk of cancer.

As per the study, certain genetic changes are known to reduce the ability of an enzyme called TET2 to encourage stem cells to become mature blood cells, which eventually die, in many patients with certain kinds of leukemia.

The new study found that vitamin C activated TET2 function in mice engineered to be deficient in the enzyme.

The results suggested that changes in the genetic code (mutations) that reduce TET2 function are found in 10 percent of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 30 per cent of those with a form of pre-leukemia called myelodysplastic syndrome, and in nearly 50 percent of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

The study results revolve around the relationship between TET2 and cytosine, one of the four nucleic acid “letters” that comprise the DNA code in genes. To determine the effect of mutations that reduce TET2 function in abnormal stem cells, the team genetically engineered mice such that the scientists could switch the TET2 gene on or off.